So nearly every processor made in the last 20 years has an security flaw that at *best* will make for a ~30-60% performance hit to cover, and and worst is completely unfixable and may allow any web page with Javascript. to read data sitting somewhere in your memory.

FUN

Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?
-Clifford Stoll

It's not really a Javascript vulnerability - JS is just the most obvious 'foreign thing runs on your comp' that is out there. As soon as something else can execute on your computer, that too makes your comp vulnerable. It's that bad.

Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?
-Clifford Stoll

It's dodgy and as sever as it is i haven't had the time to look into the issue to see what it is and what it does but as they say in the article:
"At best, the vulnerability could be leveraged by malware and hackers to more easily exploit other security bugs"
I kind of guessed this was a possibility since i saw this video last summer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrksBdWcZgQ

It's obscure and a bit weird so i speculate that nothing major for the general user should be in danger but companies should double check stuff atleast.